Accessible and Affordable 3rd Party API and Microservice Integration Testing

Creating seamless digital experiences for customers can require hundreds of systems and services to work together. Not only do you have to worry about your own internal systems, but now in the world of APIs and microservices you also have to worry about how these external systems are going to work with yours.

Testing dependencies on 3rd party services presents unique challenges. Many 3rd parties charge access fees for test interfaces and the availability and performance of the interfaces may not be the same as the production versions.

Learn how service virtualization can be used to:
•Virtualize 3rd party services so they are accessible all the time without fees
•Replicate production like dependencies for testing
•Reproduce production defects for faster remediation
•Eliminate scheduling conflicts and enable parallel development
•Generate virtualized data

The EU General Data Protection Regulation is still a very big topic. Over 90% of organizations believe that the GDPR will impact the way they collect, use and process personal data. Will your organisation be ready on May 25, 2018?

Join us on November 7th, 2017 to hear how Nationwide focus its efforts on consumer data protection through the creation of a Testing Services Practice; a centralised group tasked with establishing best practice in testing and with implementing data management capabilities across the firm in a federated, “hub-and-spoke”, model in order to comply with their GDPR requirements.

For organizations embarking on a digital transformation and pressured to deliver innovative applications, CA Service Virtualization eliminates common development and testing constraints to accelerate your SDLC while achieving up to 50% higher quality application releases. Only CA is positioned as a large scale global IT software player, with the nimbleness your organization requires in the Application Economy.

If you are serious about changing the way applications are built and delivered, join CA and Perficient and learn how you can 'Automate your API’s and create real ROI with CA Service Virtualization’. CA Service Virtualization addresses the problems of delivering bug-free code that can scale, due to the virtualized testing capabilities.

With less than a year before the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) goes into effect, many companies are scrambling to figure out how to be compliant with yet another regulation. A better way to approach this (or any) compliance initiative is to understand its basic requirements then search for solutions that will not only help you to meet compliance, but improve your business.

Don’t just become compliant, become better! The EU GDPR is not only an opportunity to evaluate how your teams use personal data for testing, but how those teams can build better data from scratch with faster and better results.

Join our expert, Nathan Devoll from CA Technologies, as he clearly explains the EU GDPR and builds the case for generating new data more quickly without the compliance headaches. You’ll come away with a clear understanding how you can become EU GDPR compliant and build better data, at the same time!

Testing is a critical but very time-consuming part of the release cycle—in fact, 63% of DevOps adopters still cite current QA processes as a bottleneck. Testing hand-offs, communications, validation and feedback are still very manual. How can you streamline your testing workflow to speed the process and enable better visibility into your testing regimen?

In today’s agile environments, coding without testing in mind makes you unprepared for the velocity or the volume of changes required to attain continuous testing and delivery. Employing a model-based testing approach gets testing on the fast track and lets you test at the speed of agile.

Unlike traditional testing approaches, model-based testing enables rigorous testing that fits into the same sprint, while allowing stakeholders—from testers and developers to business analysts—to stay in alignment and remain flexible.

Shift-left requirements and test case design, along with finding and creating the right test data quickly are key to faster software development. With the right tools and processes, developers and testers can finally make testing a robust advantage within their SDLC.

Silos. Lack of visibility. Some agile teams… some not. Manual handoffs. Bottlenecks. This summer, it’s time to get outside (your old processes) and take some time off (your application release cycle). Take back your weekends and spend more time by the pool. We’ll show you how to automate, orchestrate, and facilitate continuous everything – and that includes continuous testing – one of the biggest bottlenecks of all.

Join CA DevOps and Sauce Labs to learn the tips and tricks for a better summer… and beyond.

You’ll learn how to:

Automatically shift quality left: Orchestrate and automate testing in every phase of the SDLC with automated promotion and feedback loops

Accelerate testing in the cloud: Test web and mobile apps in parallel – achieve up to 10X improvement in testing time. Use tools of choice while optimizing every aspect of your complex, interdependent multi-application pipelines.

Learn Four Ways Model-based Testing Can Help You Test at the Speed of Agile.

Coding without testing in mind, is a classic mark of traditional testing. It slows you down in a big way, and therefore unfit for the speed, velocity or the volume of changes required to attain Continuous Testing and Delivery.

Learn the “1-2 punch” of continuous testing by simulating needed test environments and running multi-layer testing across 100’s of protocols even before the UI is complete.With organization’s DevOps efforts testing maturity becomes a key differentiator in organization’s ability to deliver innovation to market. The benefit Agile practices gave development teams to speed up their sprints also left QA and testing professionals having to play catch-up due to slow and inadequate testing practices at the time.

This session covers how DevTest solutions from CA allows development and testing teams to virtualize critical components, environments and 3rd party systems that might have cost or access restrictions, and then automate functional, regression, API, Web UI and performance tests across all application layers by invoking and verifying the behavior of each component.

Agile development teams are working in two-week sprints. Accomplishing a two-week sprint means having access to the right test data quickly. This is where synthetic data generation comes to the rescue. With CA Test Data Manager companies can generate the right test data when they need it.

View this session to learn how:
- Test data can be built from scratch to meet your two-week sprints
- Your test teams can save time using an automated data creation solution

Test data without test automation is like a bridge that takes you halfway across a river. Test automation without test data is just as useless. Fortunately, you can bridge the gap with modern solutions that solve your hardest packaged, web, and custom application testing problems.

View this session and see how you can incorporate test automation with exactly the right test data when you need it, the way you need it. Including:

- Generate and deliver the right test data to the right place, on demand
- Create end-to-end, cross-platform business process validation with true, data-driven automation
- Keep test sets current with Evergreen Automation™, allowing you to more fully support agile and -
- DevOps practices across the full SDLC

Organizations cannot achieve the speed or quality promised from continuous delivery unless they modernize their testing tools and practices. Continuous testing—the ability to test early, often, and automatically—is critical to meeting evolving business needs and expectations.

View this session to better understand what continuous testing is, learn how to overcome the biggest bottlenecks to success, and discover some valuable continuous testing techniques.

You will learn:

- How continuous testing fits into continuous delivery initiatives
- How to shift testing activity upstream into the requirements phase, where it is most relevant in the software development lifecycle
- How to assess your current testing environment with a new scorecard to know where to implement continuous testing changes

Seemingly everyone is excited about DevOps – the issue is that nearly every constituency, from practitioners to solutions vendors – maintains a unique definition and perspective on what this transformative process truly entails.

To some, DevOps is merely a nascent cultural evolution, while others are already referring to proven best practices useful in marrying development and IT operations to reinvent the modern software factory. The beauty is, DevOps is all of these things, and more.

In this webinar, representatives from DevOps Express, the industry-leading consortium of technologists and solutions providers will discuss:

-The most commonly held beliefs regarding the true meaning of DevOps and how this relates to real-world adoption
-How advancement toward a commonly held set of concepts and workflows will spur broader DevOps acceptance
-Some of the most significant challenges facing today’s organization as they continue to align with DevOps methodologies
-Where technology providers and the DevOps Express consortium will seek to help organizations integrate and simplify toolchains

Listen this open discussion of where DevOps maturity currently stands and help contribute to the evolution of related standards and best practices.

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new regulation in Europe with global impact that will come into force on May 25th, 2018. Its objective is to further strengthen data protection. Enforcement will be backed by heavy fines. Organizations that deal with data on a Global scale will need to review their data lifecycle and put in place processes and technology to be compliant. In this webinar, CA experts will share some thoughts around the journey organizations are on and discuss some real life examples.

Today, companies must deliver customer value faster, with higher quality—and lower costs. Learn how you can accomplish this, incorporating customer feedback, and allowing developers, testers and performance teams to work in parallel.

View this on demand content to:
- Learn how Agile + Continuous Delivery produce better results when implemented together.
- Quantify the big gains you can achieve in your software delivery process.
- Discover the automated solutions you can take advantage of to see immediate gain in productivity.

The pressures of the app economy mean that improving velocity and delivering optimal customer value must live at the heart of every organization’s digital transformation strategy. As a result, businesses are transforming the way in which they design, develop, and deliver applications so they can offer higher quality apps to customers, faster than ever before. Agile and DevOps practices have become critical to success.

This panel discussion with thought Leaders and customers moderated by Aruna Ravichandran, VP, DevOps Solutions Marketing at CA Technologies, will cover how the Agile and Devops practices help businesses respond to changing market dynamics with speed and confidence; and get to market faster with high-quality products that customers want.

Nearly two years ago, GM Financial (the finance arm of General Motors) set out implement a new continuous delivery (CD) practice in order improve their loan process and better serve their customers. Since then, they’ve been fully committed to improve delivery times and software quality by driving CD adoption within their company. Working with Dev, QA, and Ops, they have collaborated to improve their software factory and have been automate thousands of deployments, and have driven down the time it takes to process loans two weeks to one day. And according to GM Financial, they are just getting started.

Just one short year ago, United began the journey towards zero-touch automation. Relying on CA Release Automation, United evolved from a manual, one-per-month release cycle with low test coverage to 4-7 releases a month with fully automated test cases including full regression, security scans, and load testing. During this time, they have seen a 20% improvement in productivity and saved over 22,000 hours of manual testing to date. And the transformation continues. United has a clear picture of success, and continues to work toward a fully automated continuous delivery organization inclusive of tools, processes, and cultural transformation.

Nicole Forsgren CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

Quality and efficiency rule the day. Forsgren will detail how ongoing advancement of DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices has redefined culture and reinvented workflow – while providing some of the specific formulas and metrics useful to quantify related costs and measure resulting ROI.

New approaches like DevOps or the adoption of a Digital Transformation strategy are meant to make life easier and simpler to creating quality applications faster with better quality and at lower costs, but do they? Maybe. They’ll help put structure in place for team collaboration or deliver an experience your customers won’t forget, but development teams still face the constraints of development through deployment. From development, testing and the management of releases, organizations and their customers have had to deal with ineffective service delivery, compounded by the silos of development, system administration, and operations. CA solutions for DevOps and Continuous Delivery can help you eliminate constraints across the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), allow developers, testers and performance teams to work in parallel for faster delivery and more reliable outcomes, all the way through deployment and feedback from IT Operations. Get the information you need when you need it in these thought provoking sessions live or on-demand. Be a member of channel to receive updates, best practices and advice from industry thought leaders on how to eliminate constraints across your SDLC.